Khmer(s) may refer to:
Cambodia
*''Srok Khmer'' (lit. "Khmer land" or "Land of the Khmer(s)"), a colloquial exonym used to refer to
Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country located in the southern portion of the Indochinese Peninsula in Southeast Asia, spanning an area of , bordered by Thailan ...
by Cambodians; see
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Khmer people
The Khmer people ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរ, ) are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Cambodia. They comprise over 90% of Cambodia's population of 17 million. , the ethnic group to which the great majority of Cambodians belong
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Khmer Americans, Americans of Khmer (Cambodian) ancestry
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Khmer Krom
The ''Khmer Krom'' ( km, ជនជាតិខ្មែរក្រោម, , , lit. 'Lower Khmers' or 'Southern Khmers'; vi, người Khơ-me Crộm, người Khmer Nam Bộ, người Khmer Việt Nam, người Việt gốc Miên (used before 19 ...
, Khmer people living in the Mekong Delta and Southeast Vietnam
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Khmer Loeu, the Mon-Khmer highland tribes in Cambodia
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Northern Khmer people, ethnic Khmer people of Northeast Thailand
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Khmer (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Khmer script
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Khmer architecture
Khmer architecture ( km, ស្ថាបត្យកម្មខ្មែរ), also known as Angkorian architecture ( km, ស្ថាបត្យកម្មសម័យអង្គរ), is the architecture produced by the Khmers during the Ang ...
, the architecture of Cambodia
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Khmer cuisine, the dominant cuisine in Cambodia
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Khmer Empire, which ruled much of Indochina from the 9th to the 13th centuries
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Khmer Issarak
The Khmer Issarak ( km, ខ្មែរឥស្សរៈ, or 'Independent Khmer') was a "loosely structured" anti-French and anti-colonial independence movement. The movement has been labelled as “amorphous”. The Issarak was ...
, anti-French, Khmer nationalist political movement formed in 1945
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Khmer language
Khmer (; , ) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Khmer people, and the official and national language of Cambodia. Khmer has been influenced considerably by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through ...
, the language of the Khmers, also the official and national language of Cambodia
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Khmer Khe dialect
Khmer Khe (or Hakka Khmer; km, ខ្មែរខិ) is a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia. It has an estimated lexical similarity of between 95-96% with Central Khmer.
Names
Alternate names for Khmer Khe include Khme ...
, a Khmeric language spoken in Stung Treng Province, Cambodia
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Northern Khmer dialect
Northern Khmer (; km, ខ្មែរខាងជើង), also called Surin Khmer ( km, ខ្មែរសុរិន្ទ, link=no), is the dialect of the Khmer language spoken by approximately 1.4 million Khmers native to the Thai provinc ...
, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the ethnic Khmers in Northeast Thailand
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Western Khmer dialect, a dialect of the Khmer language spoken by the Khmers native to the Cardamom Mountains
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Khmer nationalism, a form of nationalism founded in Cambodia
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Khmer Republic
The Khmer Republic ( km, សាធារណរដ្ឋខ្មែរ, ; french: République khmère) was a pro-United States military-led republican government of Cambodia that was formally declared on 9 October 1970. The Khmer Republic w ...
, the official name of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
*Khmer Sâ (White Khmer), a pro-US force formed by the Khmer Republic's defence minister
Sak Sutsakhan
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Khmer script
Khmer script ( km, អក្សរខ្មែរ, )Huffman, Franklin. 1970. ''Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader''. Yale University Press. . is an abugida (alphasyllabary) script used to write the Khmer language, the official la ...
, the script used to write the Khmer and Khmer Loeu languages
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Khmer Serei
The Khmer Serei ( km, ខ្មែរសេរី ; "Free Khmer") were an anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist Son Ngoc Thanh. In 1959, he published 'The Manifesto of the Khmer Serei' claiming that ...
, anti-communist and anti-monarchist guerrilla force founded by Cambodian nationalist
Son Ngoc Thanh
Sơn Ngọc Thành ( km, សឺង ង៉ុកថាញ់; 7 December 1908 – 8 August 1977) was a Cambodia
Cambodia (; also Kampuchea ; km, កម្ពុជា, UNGEGN: ), officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country lo ...
*Political terms coined by
Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk (; km, នរោត្តម សីហនុ, ; 31 October 192215 October 2012) was a Cambodian statesman, Sangkum and FUNCINPEC politician, film director, and composer who led Cambodia in various capacities throughout hi ...
based on the word 'Khmer':
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Khmer Bleu, Sihanouk's domestic opponents on the right
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Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 197 ...
, a Cambodian Communist political group and guerrilla movement
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Khmer Việt Minh, Cambodian communists who lived in exile in North Vietnam after the 1954 Geneva Conference
Other uses
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''Khmer'' (album), a 1997 jazz album by Nils Petter Molvær
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Khmer (food), traditional dish native to Jizan, Saudi Arabia
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Khmer: The Lost Empire of Cambodia'', a 1997 nonfiction book by Thierry Zéphir
See also
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Khemara (disambiguation) Khemara ( km, ខេមរា, UNGEGN: , ALA-LC: ) is the formal term for ''Khmer'' in the Khmer language. It is used as a personal name as well as organization names. It is also written as Khemarak ( km, ខេមរៈ, link=no, UNGEGN: , ALA-L ...
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